Andreas Gursky (b.1955): Chicago, Board of Trade II, 1999, photograph, C-print on paper.
I saw this picture at the Tate in Liverpool and it felt very pertinent to my current project. You can see within it the blurring of boundaries between man and man-made. The human, the electronic and virtual become a single entity, this could so easily be a computer chip or plate.
Top: The Toledo Cope, 1320-30, England
Bottom: The Syon Cope, 1310-20, England
Images from the V&A’s exhibition on Opus Anglicanum, running till February ‘17. I would really like to get down to see it if I get the chance
Diagram of the four humours, closely linked to the elements and the weather. It’s worth noting that the two humours associated with Earth and Water (material elements) are portrayed through a feminine body – in the Early Modern period they thought of women as possessing more of these humours, explaining their delicacy and inferiority to men. The man is linked to Fire and Air, strong and warrior-like, depicting their superiority and linking the body with its environment. For example in Macbeth the witches are always found out on the moor and associated with rain and thunder.
Image source: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/engl-690-project/index
John Cooper Clarke, Evidently Chickentown, performed at the Latitude Festival in 2012
Although incredibly profane, I love how he builds rhythm and metre. There’s also a monotony which reminds me of chanting and latin prayers, very singsong but almost incomprehensible
Salena Godden, ‘I Know a Lot of Dead People Now’
One of the poems performed at her reading in the Peter Scott Gallery, this poem out of all of them was the one that stayed with me.
“To kill yourself before 40 is murdering a stranger”
This was very personal for me, but her point struck me. Our identities are evolving, they accumulate our experiences and our megalomanic collecting of memories.
Grayson Perry as Claire, accepting the Turner Prize, 2003 Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/04/grayson-perry-dress-tranny-art-who-are-you-tv
Grayson Perry, Our Mother, 2009 Source: http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/12-grayson-perry/works/artworks12649/
The idea of the humorous body: a vessel for liquids and gases, heavily influenced and constructed by the outside world. (English lit)
–> Our surroundings create us and therefore our clothes can define us, how can we express that identity through clothing?
–> Link to embroidery notes in sketchbook, the idea of ritual and transformation associated with clothing and religious vestments
Grayson Perry uses clothes to transform his outer self into a reflection of his inner self. A lot of his work uses these ideas.
My final individual video piece, themed around The Edge.
The edge of the self, your interior and exterior.
This week’s life drawing, really liked the chalk and biro, think I’m going to use that in our final drawing next week, probably on sugar paper.
Could collage onto sugar paper beforehand? Poetry? –> link to earlier development of blackout poetry
The Edge Group Video
Drawing progress, it’s getting somewhere slowly, need to blitz the studio this week
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